Frank Williams will be absent from the trackside at Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and, though this is not a unique occurrence for the 62-year-old team principal, it is certainly highly unusual. ”Saving money,” he said wistfully with a faint smile by way of explanation, and he is right.
MPs will, for the first time, consider resolutions calling for the sacking of several magistrates convicted of crimes, or who persistently demonstrate incompetence in their work. Parliament’s test of the existing system emerged against the background of intensifying controversy over reforms to the oversight of judicial officers.
Former anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak is to use his considerable oratorical powers to persuade community and church leaders to support a golf and lifestyle estate development near George. The Lagoon Bay Lifestyle Estate is chaired by South Africa’s former ambassador to Washington and now prominent businessman Franklin Sonn.
Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett on Thursday became the first person to fly around the world solo without stopping or refueling — 67 hours and 37 000km after taking off in his spindly-looking, experimental jet. Fossett (60) already holds the record for flying solo around the globe in a balloon.
Zimbabweans feel South African President Thabo Mbeki has betrayed them, compromised his efforts to lead the search for a solution to their political crisis and openly sided with their dictatorial president. Mbeki said this week that Zimbabwe had complied with all the regional protocols meant to ensure fairness in its parliamentary elections.
<i>Send & Receive</i> is one where girls get tipsy after two glasses of wine, where men are either good mates or scoundrels, and where the only black person in the novel speaks English with "a faint American accent" writes Chris Roper.
"When I was about nine years old my father stuck me in the Rio Cinema on the corner of President and Sauer streets, while he worked as a journalist at <i>The Star</i>. I was left to my own devices and the cinema was as good a place as any to feed my fantasy." Teddy Mattera experienced the bioscope, and a community’s tears.
After four days it took a seven-year-old child to ask the question millions would like answered. As the Prince of Wales continued his tightly scheduled tour of Australia on Thursday he was confronted by Pamela Kenneally-Murphy at a primary school in Melbourne. Wrapping her arms around the heir to the throne she said: ”I hope you are in love with the woman you are marrying.”
Countrywide pay protests by disgruntled truckers are to continue on Friday, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) said in Johannesburg. ”We will push ahead until the employer starts negotiating in good faith and show more commitment to resolving the current disagreement,” said Satawu representative June Dube.
The largest and probably worst child abuse case ever heard in a French criminal court got under way on Thursday when 66 adults, including 27 women, appeared in a specially built courtroom accused of raping, sexually abusing and prostituting 45 children.